Two parents tried to resuscitate their 3-month-old girl, who was unresponsive when her father woke and saw the child with her 1-year-old brother and their mother in bed this week, he told The Daily News.

At his mother’s house on Tamarack Court, Howard Bacon of Midway Park, rushed his unresponsive daughter to the living room and put her on her back, he said.

Bacon woke his girlfriend, the child’s mother, and told her their daughter, Tomaya Leenysia Bacon, was not breathing and called 911, he said.

Bacon put his daughter on her back and began to administer CPR with guidance from dispatch, Bacon said.

“I can’t even look at her car seat or her clothes without crying,” said the mother, who asked not to be named, Wednesday afternoon.

The family was visiting the children’s grandmother, and because the couple had not planned to stay, they had no bedding for the child, her mother said.

“We aren’t trained CPR people,” the mother said.

Major Jon Lewis of Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday afternoon the case is under investigation.

“At this point, I don’t know if charges will be filed or not,” Lewis said.

A sheriff’s office press release issued Tuesday about the infant’s death said an officer named Deputy Myer located the child and performed CPR until an ambulance arrived.

“We were doing it the whole time before they got here,” Bacon said.

The mother said the deputy went inside and she begged him to help resuscitate the child.

“He got down on his knees. He was nervous,” the mother said.

The release says an autopsy revealed the cause of death “appears to be the result of the infant sleeping in a bed with the mother and other siblings.”

Bacon said his 1-year-old son was the only sibling with the infant and they were at the foot of the bed.

“I didn’t like that they had posted a baby died by sleeping with siblings and that my child died at Onslow Memorial,” Bacon said. “We are not bad parents.”

The child’s mother said the family has had no access to any autopsy report.

Onslow County Register of Deeds had not received a death certificate in the child’s death Wednesday afternoon.

Tomaya’s funeral will be 3 p.m. Saturday at Saunders Funeral Home. Visitation will begin one hour before at the funeral home.

Bacon said his child’s death was an accident.

“We have to live with this,” he said.

The mother said anyone willing to help the family with funeral costs can contact Bacon at 910-320-1309.

Page 2 of 2 - Kathleen Holbrook, the child advocacy director at Onslow County Partnership for Children, said Onslow County — and other communities — has too many child deaths attributed to unsafe-sleeping habits.

She recalled when two children died locally the same day because they were sleeping with too many blankets.

“A baby can suffocate by having its mouth on its parent’s skin,” Holbrook said. “It is terrifying.”

Katie Tallman, an inclusion specialist at Onslow County Partnership for Children, said babies lack the strength to raise their heads if their breathing becomes blocked as they sleep.

She said children should be placed on their backs in a cordoned space without any obstructions that could cause a child to suffocate.

That means no blankets or pillows, she said.

“You can get as simple as a laundry basket or a open drawer not attached to the dresser, of course,” Holbrook said of ideal makeshift bedding for babies.

Tallman and her husband lost their 6-and-a-half-month-old son, Barrett, two years ago. Tallman now teaches safe-sleeping habits to parents in the community.

“No parents ever think it will happen — and then it does — and it changes your world forever,” Tallman said. “It’s not worth the risk.”

Updated at 5:11 p.m.

Two parents tried to resuscitate their three-month-old girl, who was unresponsive when her father woke, he told The Daily News.

“I can’t even look at her car seat or her clothes without crying,” said the infant's mother, who wished not to be named, about her daughter’s belongings.

Howard Bacon of Midway Park said that at about 6 a.m. Monday at his mother’s house on Tamarack Court, he rushed his daughter, Tomaya Leenysia Bacon, to the living room.

Major Jon Lewis of Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said the case is under investigation.

“At this point, I don’t know if charges will be filed or not,” Lewis said.

Monday morning, Bacon had woke his girlfriend, the child’s mother, and called 911, he said. Bacon put his daughter on her back and began to administer CPR with guidance from dispatch.

“We are not bad parents,” Bacon said in response to a press release issued Tuesday by Onslow County Sheriff’s Office about his daughter’s death that said an officer named Deputy Myer located the child and performed CPR until an ambulance arrived. “We were doing it the whole time before they got here.”

The child’s funeral will be 3 p.m. Saturday at Saunders Funeral Home.

Bacon said his child’s death was an accident.

“We have to live with this,” Bacon said.

The child's mother said anyone willing to help the family pay for the funeral can contact Bacon at 910-320-1309.